Manager Merchandise Financial Planning Food and Beauty

Within the Food & Beauty unit, you are responsible from a financial-strategic perspective for drafting, monitoring, and adjusting the merchandise planning regarding turnover, margin, and inventory. You consolidate the financial category plans into a single unit-wide overview (including open-to-buy) and monitor its quality and coherence towards management and finance. You calculate the implications of commercial choices, assortment, promotion, and pricing and translate these into concrete adjustment proposals. An important part of your role is framework setting: you establish the overarching financial and operational frameworks at unit level towards the Manager Supply Chain Planning Food. You assess whether the category strategies align with the unit strategy, are financially substantiated, and are future-proof. You lead 5 planners who bring a lot of experience: you are expected to challenge them substantively, provide counterweight, and develop them towards a stronger advisory and sparring role.

At HEMA, you work in an environment where people truly collaborate. You are given the space to develop yourself, receive good guidance, and get feedback that is truly useful to you. Whether you are just starting out or already have experience: you are welcome with us. Additionally, at HEMA you receive:

• 💸 A good salary appropriate to your knowledge and experience.
• 🌴 30 vacation days (based on 40 hours) and 8% holiday allowance, so you can recharge in time.
• 🎯 A variable reward of up to 14% of your annual salary - depending on the collective result.
• 💸 A net monthly expense allowance
• 🎄 A fixed year-end bonus of 4% of your annual salary
• 🛍️ 15% staff discount on all your HEMA favorites - from cream puffs to towels and notebooks.
• 🧓 A good pension scheme, so you are well-situated later on as well.
• 🚗 Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer (from 10 km one way up to max. 30 km)
• 🎡 Access to the 'benefits at work' platform, with discounts on top brands, day trips, and other extras that make life more enjoyable.

You are an analytical, commercially sharp leader who holds your own among experienced professionals. You dare to provide substantive counterweight, bring structure, and take ownership of the quality and consistency of the planning. You switch effortlessly between figures and commerce and know how to engage and develop people. Your background may lie in merchandise/financial planning, but also in controlling, for example; it is about your financial-strategic insight and leadership. Furthermore, you bring:

• Completed HBO/WO degree, preferably in a field such as Business Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Retail Management.
• Approximately 6-9+ years of experience in merchandise planning, financial planning, controlling, or similar roles within retail, of which a portion is in a senior or coordinating role.
• Extensive experience with drafting, monitoring, and assessing financial (category) plans, open-to-buy budgets, and forecasting on a larger scale.
• Experience with leadership, including coaching, development, and assessment.
• Knowledge of the logistics chain and the financial connection between inventory management, purchasing, and costs.
• Strong knowledge of planning systems, BI tools, and data analysis; capable of penetrating complex analyses and assessing them for quality.
• Experience with initiating and managing improvement projects and organizational change.

At HEMA, we work with over 17,000 colleagues toward a better everyday life in a more beautiful world. With products that are more practical, more beautiful, better, and also last longer. And with colorful stores in villages, cities, and online. We are proud of how far we have come, but we are not yet satisfied. HEMA is truly HEMA again and ready for the next step. Our ambition? To become the leader in a challenging market. We do that together, as one team, with proud colleagues, entrepreneurs, and partners. By playing to win. That means being curious, seizing opportunities, collaborating with pleasure, and always aiming for the best result. You dare to speak your mind and challenge others to become better together. With your unique contribution, you can help build the HEMA of tomorrow. You make HEMA real. Will you join us?